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1800- Westward expansion begins
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1865- Lincoln is assassinated at the theatre by John Wilkes Booth
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1867- KKK releases writing entailing their rise to power as well as a warning to black individuals
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1869- The first transcontinental railroad is built
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1873- Mark twain publishes the gilded age
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1877 The great railroad strike
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1879- Thomas Eddison creates the lightbulb
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1885- the first ever 10 story skyscraper is built
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1892- Homestead steel strike
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1919- the treaty of versailles
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1920- 19th amendment
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1929- The great depression
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1932- FDR elected president
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1941- the start of ww2
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1945- us bombs japan
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1955- Montgomery bus boycott
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1965- voting act
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1968- MLK assassinated
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1973- roe v wade
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1974- Watergate/ Nixons resignation